A fearless police dog played a starring role in a violent confrontation with fleeing criminals which left a policeman badly injured, and three men behind bars.

German Shepherd Logan tracked the men to a building before the fugitives hurled a barrage of bricks at the dog and his handler, a court heard.

Logan and his brave handler PC Ian Sweeney were struck by bricks, the policeman receiving serious injuries, after they had tracked the men to their hideout in a stables and tried to keep them penned in until help arrived.

Haigh and Hunt were convicted after a trial at Grimsby Crown Court of aggravated vehicle taking on April 25. Johnson admitted the offence.

At the sentencing hearing in Hull, Haigh and Hunt were jailed for three years and were banned from driving for three-and-a-half years. Johnson was jailed for 20 months and was banned from the roads for four years and 10 months.

Daniel Raworth - three-and-a-half years

Police wanted the passcode to unlock dealer Daniel Raworth's iPhone as part of their drug dealing investigation (Image: Humberside Police)

A drug dealer who tried to "outfox" the police became the first in the area to be jailed for refusing to tell them the security code of his phone this month.

Amy Theobald, who worked for the Louth-based farming industry co-operative Woldmarsh, ordered thousands of pounds worth of mobile phones over a two year period claiming they were for members of the organisation.

But instead she kept the phones which were paid for by Woldmarsh. Some of the phones were distributed to other people and Theobald recycled some of them in return for cash.

Theobald, 30, formerly known as Amy Silvester, of St Bernards Avenue, Louth, admitted a charge of theft by employee. She was jailed for six months.